ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2020
Call: WB8WKQ
Operator(s): WB8WKQ
Station: WB8WKQ
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MI
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 764 Sections = 76 Countries = 6 Total Score = 126,772
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
I decidedly firmly, I was not going to participate in this contest. Not that
it's not one of the more exciting contests, but because I'm getting older and I
just don't bounce back from staying up till morning two nights in a row. Told a
buddy I wasn't going to participate. Well, in this "lockdown" world,
and with nothing but a very meaningless college football game on Friday night, I
said, well, let's go over to 160 and hand out a few Q's. Bad move! Worked a
quick 75 and caught the fever. I guess this is like any other vice, one needs
to go completely cold turkey! So found myself at 4 am still making Q's Friday
night (or rather Saturday morning). Then the goal became, "can I beat my
score from 2017?". Are we creatures of habit or what? After duping out,
looks like I had 722 official Qs and 77 mults for about 112K back three years
ago. Hopefully, I accomplished my goal, with about 5 more mults. Even with LP,
I was able to, at times, hold a frequency to run. Biggest thrill? CQing
relentless with minimal success, then EA7X answers me! That was all the
motivation I needed for the rest of the night. Turns out that was the only EU
station I worked, but LP is a tough animal. In fact, Friday night, ran at 100W,
because I thought that ws the max for LP. Looked it up on Saturday before the
band opened and found out I could run 150, which I did the second night. Not
sure it made a hill of beans difference though. This is a great contest, and my
only request would be that 160M be open only in the daylight hours!! Thanks for
all the Q's.
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